G: In our game, nursery rhymes have magical power.
B: I have a magic sword.
G: You need a rhyme to activate its power.
B: With this sword, I set them free!
I: That doesn’t rhyme.
D: Oh, heck. “The was an old man called McGee, with this sword I set them free!”
As I. (not I) said, paraphrasing Tom Lehrer‘s sentiment, the problem with most folk songs is that they were created by the folk.
Remember Ultraviolet, the feel-good movie of the decade? Here’s a reminder:
Now via Story Games, I learned that someone has written an RPG that perfectly captures the film experience:
When fighting faceless, roll 2D6. That’s how many of them die. No, they don’t get to try to hurt you. You just kill them.
When fighting bosses, roll 2D6. If you roll doubles, the boss dies. If not, keep rolling until you do. no, they don’t get a chance to kill you either. Just keep rolling.
NOT FIGHTING: If you decide to ride a motorcycle up a building or something, roll 2D6, and then succeed.
ROLLING DOUBLES
If you ever roll doubles for any action, you must change both your clothing and hair colors.
The best part is a random plot twist table: whenever the players think they know what’s going on, roll 1D6 – with results like You’re completely wrong about what’s going on
, or The boss shows up and has some stymied dialogue about how you’re all going to fail.
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There’s even actual play, god help us all.
Lore Sjöberg, has a series of webcomics featuring the creatures of the original AD&D Monster Manual (there is, as far as geek culture standards go, no other).
This sounds interesting: The Elfish Gene by Mark Barrowcliffe, subtitled “Dungeons, Dragons and growing up strange” is a memoir about being a teenage geek in 1970s Britain. [via Tor.com].
Not Embassy Champagne, but still: Space Beer.